First Draft - Mona Simpson
First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing
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The Favorite Hollows of a Book
CNN's John Sutter reads a passage from an author that influenced him as a writer. "Every serious writer, I dare say, is aware of this or that published book of his," he says. The better the book has conformed to its prefigured contour and color, the ampler and smoother it glows,. But even so, there are certain points, spy roads, favorite hollows that one of the books more eagerly and enjoys more tenderly than the rest of one's book."
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